Why MYSTERIES? Because that is the genre I read. Why PARADISE? Because that is where I live.
Among other things, this blog, the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution, will act as a record of books that I've read, and random thoughts.

3 June 2010

Forgotten Book: DEATH IN DREAMTIME, S.H. Courtier

I'm not sure if a book can be forgotten, if you, dear reader, have never heard of it.
Australia has long produced some excellent crime fiction writers.
One of those was Sydney Hobson Courtier (1904-1974), born in Victoria, and the author of 23 novels published 1956 - 1975.
Courtier created 2 detectives: Digger Haig was one of them.

DEATH IN DREAMTIME: a mystery of masks & ciphers was published by Australia's Wakefield Press, and indeed is still available.
I read DEATH IN DREAMTIME, originally published in London in 1959, and republished by Wakefield Crime Classics in 1993, in 1996.

Blurb
‘I’m on to a filthy game. A game worse than murder.’ His cousin’s baffling SOS sends Jack Corless speeding hundreds of miles north to Ungimillia, home of The Alchera or Dreamtime Land. In the shadows of the spectacle he finds murder and intrigue, but everywhere illusion and reality seem to merge, and even Inspector ‘Digger’ Haig can’t quite read the signs.